[Grammar] The salesman explained to us about the new product.

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wotcha

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"The salesman explained to us about the new product."


Is the sentence grammatical?
 

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Whilst I don't actually disagree with bhaisahab here, I generally find "to explain" in conjunction with "about" quite clunky.

I would prefer "The salesman explained the product to us", "The salesman explained how the product works to us" or "The salesman explained to us how the product works".
 
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